Telephone-directory.



T. C. McNEILL.

TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. APPLICATION men JUNE 24. m1. RENEWED AUG. 19, 1916.

1,222,009"; Patented Apr. 10, 1917.

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WIIIIBEEES:

THOMAS C. MCNEILL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TELEPHONE-DIRECTORY.

Application filed June 24, 1911, Serial No. 635,159.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TnoMAs C. MONEILL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone-Directories,of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to card directories for telephones and its objectis to provide a simple and economical device of this kind which isadapted for attachment either to the standard desk set or the ordinarywall telephone.

The directory of my invention consists of a plurality ofindexed cardshung in regular order upon a peculiarly shaped wire support which isadapted to be hung upon the transmitter mouthpiece. The device may bereadily attached to and removed from the telephone and the arrangementis such that the means for supporting the cards is held in rigidposition so that the cards themselves may be manipulated readily andconveniently.

invention is embodied in the structure illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevational view of thetransmitter part of a telephone desk set, showing the device of myinvention applied thereto; and

Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of my device.

The desk set standard is shown at 4 and the transmitter is illustratedat 5, this transmitter having the usual mouthpiece 6. The supportingmeans for the cards which form the directory is in the form of a wiremember 7, this member having the central bow part 8 which is of suchsize as to fit over the small end of a standard transmitter mouthpiece.It will be noted that this bow part is more than semi-circular so thatthe bottom opening through which the mouth piece is passed from below isof a width less than the greatest diameter of the bow,

which diameter corresponds with the diameter of the smallest part of themouthpiece. Thus, the how 8 is snapped or forced into place, althoughonly slight pressure is required, and in this way the Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented Apr. 10, 191W.

Renewed August 19, 1916. Serial No. 115,918.

wire as a whole is held tightly against the face of the transmitterproper, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Extending from each side of the bow 8is an arm 9 which, being turned downwardly, terminates in a loop 10 andupon these loops 10, 10 the cards 11, 11, having eyelets 12, 12 for thereception of the supporting wire, are hung. The loops 10, 10 are fiat atthe back so that those parts may lie in the same plane with the parts 8and 9 and the fronts of the loops are curved, as shown in Fig. 1, sothat the cards can be swung up to expose any of them. The cards hangupon horizontal straight portions of the loops so that they are alldisposed in a horizontal plane, thus rendering it more easy to read theindexes 18. The cards are indexed as illustrated at 13 and it willappear that anyone using the telephone can conveniently manipulate thecards to obtain access to any part or parts of the directory.

I claim 'as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A device of the class described, comprising a bail formed of a singlepiece of wire,

said bail being provided with a pair ofv substantially parallel sidemembers, a loop arranged to engage a telephone mouthpiece, and a pair ofarms connecting the ends of said loop with the upper ends of said sidemembers, said loop being generally semicircular in shape but so arrangedthat the bottom opening through which the telephone mouthpiece is passedis of a width less than the greatest diameter of said loop, each of saidside members being provided with a card carrying loop at the free endthereof, each of said card carrying loops consisting of two straightportions substantially perpendicular to said side members, a roundportion connecting said two straight portions and a third straightportion lying in a right line continued from said side members and aplurality of index cards each having apertures in two corners for theinsertion of said card carrying loops.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 22nd day of June,1911.

THOMAS C. MoNEILL.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR H. BOETTCHER, ALBERT G. MOCALEB.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

